This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...begging, by human interest, by bazaars, by balls, &c, is" willingly offered' to the honour of God; and becomes, instead of a money-payment for value received, an act of acceptable worship. And never may it be forgotten that the poor widow's offering of two mites, which obtained from our Lord such imperishable praise, was a casting into the Church's treasury. 6. NO PEWS, BUT BENCHES FREE ALIKE FOR RICH AND POOR. High Churchmen. If there be one point on which Holy Scripture is emphatic, and express beyond a doubt, it is that it is wrong and contrary to God's will, to show respect to worldly distinction in that House which is His--it is that the assignment of good places to the rich in goodly apparel, while the poor are relegated to the worst and most distant places, is sinful, and 1111brotherly. How any one can 1 Wesley, 1737-1787. "The Committee proposed to me, (1) That families of men and women should sit togetherin both chapels; (2) That every one who took a pew should have it as his own: thus overthrowing at one blow the discipline which I have been establishing for fifty years V Jl. Dec. i, 1787. "From the beginning of Methodism the men and women sat apart, as they always did in the High Churchmen. read S. James ii. r-9, and yet doubt this, is incomprehensible to men of ordinary understanding, and has never been explained. As respects the practice in Parish Churches, it is contrary to English Law and was unknown even to custom until that dark age of the Church--the latter half of the 17th and the whole of the 18th centuries--an age which for its gross spiritual neglect, its sheer worldliness, and its unmitigated selfishness is without a parallel. Indeed, in almost every village there are men yet living who...